SHORT FILM
The movie is going to be about, how it affects to your mental health doping the same things every day and how small things can make a big change in your life small positive thoughts or either things like having a clean environment(room) being nice to your self and how hard is to continue doing the same thing everyday and it can make you feel trapped and depressed.
I want to send a message with my short film that is about making mental health a priority, and showing to young people and in general to everyone that taking a break is okay, and we shouldn’t be putting so much pressure on ourselves, and its okay to take a break and we all do thing at our own speed, we are not less anyone.
my target audience is young people/teenagers but i want everyone o take their mental health more seriously because is something that affects everyone more each day, and people get to struggle a lot because of their mental health more and more each day, its a topic that is very personal to m and I feel very connected to, i take very seriously, and it also passionates a lot to help people
It will have lots advice about mental health and it will had poetry.
My movie I think is very relevant because it describes the situation of a lot of people, and is something that alot of teenagers would feel related, each year the percentsge of teenagers with mental helath problems are getting bigger and bigger, so a short film about it, can help alot of people, and inspire them aswell, my film is made with the porpoise of supporting teenagers and helping them with their mental helath, and creating a lot of awareness about mental health to not just for teenagers but also for parents and friends, so they can help each other, and be more aware of their friend/son/relative mental helath mental helath problems and take them more serisoly.
50s/60s Music!!!
Kisi Ki Muskurahaton Se By Mukesh
Suhana Safar Aur Yeh Mausam: Muskeh
Hothon Se Chhu Lo Tum: Jagjit Singh
Yeh Raaten Yeh Mausam: By Kishore Kumar And Asha Bhosle
INSPIRATION
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barfi!
Made on a total budget of ₹35 crore, Barfi! opened worldwide in cinemas on 14 September 2012. The film received widespread critical acclaim praising the cast performances, direction, screenplay, cinematography, music and the portrayal of physically disabled people. The film turned out to be a major commercial success, becoming one of the highest-grossing Bollywood films of 2012 in India and overseas, and accumulated ₹175 crore worldwide. Since its release, Barfi! has achieved a cult status for its refreshing story, soundtrack, performances of the cast, and feel-good factor.
The film was selected as India’s official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film nomination for the 85th Academy Awards. Barfi! won several awards and nominations at various award ceremonies across India. At the 58th Filmfare Awards, Barfi! received a leading 12 nominations including Best Director (Basu), Best Actress (Chopra) and Best Supporting Actress (D’Cruz), and won a leading 7 awards including Best Film, Best Actor (Kapoor), Best Female Debut (D’Cruz) and Best Music Director (Pritam).
PLOT
Murphy “Barfi” Johnson is a young boy who lives in Darjeeling and is known as a troublemaker as he cuts down street-lampposts or plays practical jokes on innocent people and is often chased by Inspector Sudhangshu Dutta. Soon, Barfi meets Shruti Ghosh, an educated young girl who is new in Darjeeling. He is smitten by her heavenly beauty and charm, thus falling in love with her. However, Shruti’s mother advises her over avoiding to marry him due to his disabilities and lack of money. Shruti unwillingly agrees to her mother’s advice, marries Ranjeet Sengupta, and leaves Darjeeling, breaking all contact with Barfi. Shortly after Shruti’s departure, Barfi’s father suffers from kidney failure and is hospitalized, and Barfi is asked to arrange ₹7000 for his surgery. Meanwhile, Barfi’s autistic childhood friend Jhilmil Chatterjee suddenly gets kidnapped and her wealthy father Durjoy Chatterjee asks Inspector Dutta to search for her. After an unsuccessful attempt of robbing a local bank, Barfi finds Jhilmil in an abandoned van and drives away along with her. He hides her in his apartment and sends a ₹7000 ransom note to Jhilmil’s family. Her father hands over the ransom to Barfi but his father unfortunately dies just after he makes the hospital payment. A dejected Barfi leaves Jhilmil at her caretaker’s house but she refuses to stay over there and makes him take her away from there. Later, Barfi cleverly escapes from Inspector Dutta along with Jhilmil and the two soon move to Kolkata.
“This movies music and theme is what inspired me the mot I was submerged in it music and beauty, i took inspiration from this movie for my short film to add some meaningful songs that help us understand the emotions of the main character, the cinematography is amazing, and is performed and directed very well.”
this movie inspired me alot, is far better then what it seem and looks, a great cult film that really is a hidden gem in the film industry, and whenever I see it, I just feel like “I wish someday I make something like this”
Plot
Ishqiya starts with Krishna Verma (Vidya Balan) trying to convince her husband, Vidyadhar Verma (Adil Hussain), a local gang-lord, that he should surrender. He agrees but is soon killed in a gas explosion. Two criminals, Iftikhar aka Khalujan (Naseeruddin Shah) and Razzak Hussain aka Babban (Arshad Warsi), botch up a job and escape from the clutches of their boss, Mushtaq (Salman Shahid), who wants to bury them alive. They land up in Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh to seek refuge in the house of Vidyadhar Verma.Instead, they meet his widow Krishna, who gives them shelter and tries to seduce them to achieve her own secret goal. She proposes the kidnapping of Kamalkant Kakkar aka KK (Rajesh Sharma), a small businessman. The duo reluctantly agree, since they want to escape the clutches of Mushtaq. Meanwhile, Khalujan and Babban realise that they are falling for Krishna, but they do not reveal their feelings to each other. Babban eventually seduces Krishna and both have sex. Khalujan decides to tell his feelings to Krishna but is shocked when he sees Krishna and Babban together dancing after having sex. Khalujan is angry but keeps quiet. However, when the kidnapping does not go as smoothly as wanted, Khalujan and Babban start fighting.Meanwhile, Krishna tortures KK and asks him where her husband is hiding, revealing that Verma might be alive. KK finally calls Verma. Babban and Khalujan realise that Krishna was just using them. They confront her, whereupon she reveals that KK and Verma were partners in the illegal business and that Verma is still alive. The duo reach KK’s factory and are shocked to find Verma. Verma’s goons blindfold the duo and take them to a deserted spot. When they take out their blindfolds, Babban sees Nandu (Alok Kumar), a boy he had previously met, pointing a gun at them. Nandu leaves them alive and explains the whole story. He tells that Verma had no plans to leave his criminal life, so he faked his death in front of the world, to get two benefits, getting rid of his wife by killing her in explosion and faking his death so he can start a new life with new identity as police was after him. Khalujan and Babban race back to Krishna’s house, where they have left her tied to a chair.Meanwhile, Krishna succeeds in opening the tube of gas cylinder, causing a leak. Verma confronts her and she tries to kill them by igniting a lighter. Verma assaults Krishna while the duo arrives. Soon, police arrive at the scene, too. Verma’s goons are killed in a shootout, while Verma is killed in a gas explosion. The duo save Krishna and soon the trio is seen walking away from the burning house.Unknown to them, Mushtaq is pointing a gun at them. Suddenly Mushtaq’s wife calls. The trio are still seen through the gun hole of Mushtaq, making their fate unclear, although it can be assumed that Mushtaq left them alive.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaminey
Bhardwaj co-wrote the script with Sabrina Dhawan, Abhishek Chaubey, and Supratik Sen. He bought the original script for US$4,000 from Kenyan writer Cajetan Boy—whom he had mentored at a scriptwriting workshop in Uganda. Kaminey was released on 14 August 2009 and became a box-office success worldwide, grossing over ₹710 million (US$8.9 million) against a production and marketing budget of ₹350 million (US$4.4 million). The film’s soundtrack album, composed by Bhardwaj, also became a commercial success, with the song “Dhan Te Nan” topping the charts on various platforms.
Kaminey received widespread critical acclaim, with several critics and media publications placing it at number one on their listings of “Best film of the year”. Since its release, the film has attained cult status. It received several awards and nominations at ceremonies across India. At the 55th Filmfare Awards, it received ten nominations, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actor; it won the award for Best Special Effects. At the 57th National Film Awards, Kaminey won two awards — Best Audiography for Subash Sahoo and Special Jury Award for its editing by A. Sreekar Prasad.
PLOT
Charlie Sharma and Sanjay Kumar Sharma (Guddu) are twins who were raised in Mumbai. Charlie lisps while Guddu stutters. Charlie likes to take shortcuts to fulfill his dream of becoming a bookmaker at the racecourse where he works for three criminal brothers who fix races. He is closer to the youngest brother Mikhail than to Guddu, to whom he is hostile. A jockey deceives Charlie when he bets ₹100,000 (US$1,300) on a horse during a fixed race, losing all of his savings. Seeking revenge, Charlie locates the jockey in an upmarket city hotel.At the same hotel, policemen Lobo and Lele kill three drug dealers and collect a guitar case containing cocaine, which they must deliver to drug lord Tashi. Charlie and his men invade the jockey’s hotel room and take all his possessions. The ensuing chase leads to the hotel car park where Lobo and Lele are placing the guitar case in their van. Charlie and his men seize the van to escape from the jockey’s men and realise they have stolen a police vehicle, whilst also discovering the cocaine, which Charlie steals to sell. The policemen, upon returning, discover that the cocaine is missing and set out to find Charlie.Meanwhile, Guddu’s lover Sweety, sister of the politician Sunil Bhope, reveals that she is pregnant with Guddu’s child and expresses her wish to marry Guddu. They marry later that night. Bhope hears about his sister’s actions and sends his men to apprehend the lovers. Bhope’s men gatecrash Guddu’s wedding and beat him, then realise that he is a migrant from Uttar Pradesh. This enrages Bhope, who orders his men to kill Guddu and return Sweety to his house so he can arrange a marriage for her. Sweety fights off her brother’s henchmen and escapes with Guddu.Charlie tells Mikhail about the cocaine, who is delighted. When Charlie returns to retrieve the case, Bhope and his men are waiting inside the van. One of Bhope’s men recognises Guddu as Charlie’s twin and Bhope demands that Charlie reveal Guddu’s whereabouts. An inebriated Mikhail interrupts their conversation and is killed by Bhope.On the way to the airport, Guddu realises that Sweety has faked her stutter. At a petrol station, Lobo and Lele notice the pair. Mistaking Guddu for Charlie, they arrest him. They assault Guddu, refusing to believe that he is Charlie’s twin brother until Guddu’s mobile phone rings; the caller is revealed to be Bhope. Lobo and Lele agree to exchange Charlie for Guddu and Sweety on a train. The policemen take Guddu and Sweety to Bhope’s house, where Bhope reveals that a local builder will pay him ₹50 million (US$630,000) to marry Sweety to the builder’s son. Guddu bargains with Bhope—if he retrieves the cocaine-filled guitar case for Bhope, he will get Sweety. Bhope sends his henchmen with Guddu to retrieve the guitar case from Charlie’s house.The policemen assault Charlie, who refuses to negotiate, realising that the policemen are in as much trouble as himself. Charlie outwits the policemen, takes them hostage and negotiates with Tashi to exchange the guitar case for ₹1 million (US$13,000). Charlie sends the policemen to deliver the details to Tashi and returns to his house to retrieve the cocaine. At Charlie’s house, Guddu arrives with Bhope’s men. Sweety hears about Bhope’s plans to kill Guddu and shoots at the members of her household. Guddu finds the case and fights Charlie, who lets Guddu go. Guddu takes the cocaine to the police, who bug him. Guddu arrives at Bhope’s house the same time as Tashi and his gang, with Charlie as their hostage. Bhope and Tashi negotiate to trade the drugs, but Charlie snatches the guitar case and threatens to destroy it if Guddu and Sweety are not released. The lovers escape as the police arrive, leading to a shooting spree in which the cocaine is destroyed. Charlie’s bosses arrive to avenge Mikhail’s death but are killed along with Bhope, Tashi and their henchmen. Charlie is shot and wounded.Sweety gives birth to Guddu’s twins and Charlie opens a bookmaking counter at the racecourse. Charlie is engaged to Sophia, a woman earlier featured in his dream.
ROUGH SCRIPT
For the beginning “Ae Dil Kisi Ki Yaad Mein”
and for the end will be “Kisi Ki Muskurahton pe ho nisa”
Voice: How you cant do this? is so easy, is literally basic things!
The voice would have a annoying tone and be very rude tone.
The scene would follow by the main character (me) is doing some certain things every day, till it becomes tiring and stressful for him.
Starts with the character opening a a book and to writing something into it, and then the story starts, showing if the character is narrating his own story.
Me(Overwhelmed and desire): *sighs* Every day doing the same thing… I don’t get what or why I cant do it anymore, the same things I used to do before and I did every day for the past few years… I just cant do it… maybe is life trying to say something to me, or its maybe my body getting tired and drained, I feel like I’m in a cage… I’m loosing interest in the things I used to like and enjoy the most… everything feels like it doesn’t matter or like it doesn’t affect me… I miss being me, I miss being myself I’m missing and desiring being free, every day I feel like something changes in me. Nothing nice happens in my life, everything is the the same and it’s frustrating it’s so horrible… I just cant do this anymore.
Every day when I walk to the street I feel like I see the same things I even feel like I see the same faces everyday, I’m losing motivation in doing my work, I need a break, but I can’t take a break I need to do so many things I need to get my driving license my GCSE maths and english I have to focus on my course and also find a part time job, and I need to get better my attendance… there is so many things to do that it’s starting to *sighs* overwhelmed me I guess, but everyone says is normal, life is hard, right?
everyone I talk to they just say they went through worst I think I’m just overreacting I need to be stronger… I guess, I talked to my tutor’s and they said its normal, I should appreciate that my course is more easy than others, I asked for help to my friends, and they said said “we all are going through the same, you’re not the only one” I told my parents and they said “we had it wrost, you’re lucky”
A few weeks later…
(black and white filter)
“Aaja Piya Tohe Pyaar doon”
Scenes of the same shots but now in black and white, showing how the character has changed and his emotions are changed and became worse.
Our character wakes up in the morning and his emotions have consumed him he is feeling depressed and stressed.
Me (read it slow): I guess Im not as strong as I thought, its like a poison thats consuming my heart and my head, I feel tried, I can’t do anything, and neither I want to, I cant wake myself up from my bed… I feel like crying and I still can’t cry… I feel like my body can’t deal with this any more, its like my brain screaming to me saying that “Give up” the stress is horrible I get headaches every day, I feel consumed by my emotions, I wish I could switch off my emotions, and rest, I feel like I didn’t have any rest, I feel tired all the time… I ask myself all the time, “should I give up” “is it worth it?” I’m not sure to what to do, or who to ask from help, sometimes it hurts so much I can’t deal with it, and sometimes it it doesn’t matter how much it hurts or destroys me I just don’t want to be well, I don’t feel better no matter what I do, I am not going to get better or going to be happy ever, maybe I just don’t deserve that, and neither I want to be happy I just want to suffer sometimes, I don’t want to live anymore, life doesn’t have anything good, I live in a shit hole, with horrible people, drugs, people starving on streets, homophobia, racism and what not, there is no point in life, there is not any meaning in my life or reason to live, I cant change anything, I can’t change people, I can’t change, sighs I don’t want to change… they tell you when you’re happy time passes more quickly, that’s lie when you’re depressed days feel like minutes very painful minutes. Its the same thing every day every night, every single second, its getting worse and worse and.. worse, I really don’t know what to do, nothing motivates me or makes me happy absolutely nothing, anything that I ever loved feels like is gone… so what am i even doing here?
The character Is in the kitchen and is thinking about ending his existences and the camera goes black to create a dramatic.
Me: I was wrong, I wish someone told me this, I wish someone told me that life is… beautiful, life is worth living, Im my own cage Im the only one that can help me be happy, that can let me be free, happiness starts within yourself, everything that happens around you, or to you, you can see it in two ways, either a positive one or either a negative one, I never “changed” I always was me, just a bit confused and very lost, change is not bad, its a good thing, it helped me be the best of me, you change to be better you change to not make the same mistakes, life is beautiful I spent way to much time looking for something magical to happen to me, and way to much time over regretting the past and not seeing all the beautiful things that were surrounding me, and were with me, not every day something great happens, but every day theres this small things that are beautiful, that bring you peace, that make you feel loved, and you realise about how nice and marvellous is everything, there is good and bad everywhere in every corner of this world and even if negative things hurt more and have a stronger impact in your mental health, it doesn’t mean there is not any nice person in this world or nice things don’t happen, there is a lots of beauty and amazing people, you just didn’t see them of didn’t found them yet, people focus on the negative side always, we do live in a negative world but I would say that we don’t live in a bad world, it has a lot of things that are good, same as things that are bad, but not because of bad things means, my whole life will be sad and miserable, you can be happy even in the worst situations, and you can be sad sometimes in the best ones, it’s confusing, but I’ll say is beautiful, we live in a good world with bad people. I love myself, it’s all about loving yourself, and being happy with small things, seeing the beauty in everything and appreciating what you have, sometimes you forget to appreciate yourself or love yourself, you’re the only person that knows what you went through, and saying ” I love you” to yourself or just saying “Its okay” its important to understand yourself and accept yourself small things make a big change in your life, and always talk nice to myself it has a positive reaction negative words make things worse even if we don’t realise about it, we don’t mean them but our heart is to innocent to understand that, listening to music, rain, snow, the sun, is so beautiful there is so many nice and amazing things that I have with me, the world is nice, life is beautiful, but some people are horrible, and they don’t even deserve my worst insults, no one does, you can love everything but you can’t even fully hate a one person. I don’t need anyone’s acceptance or validation, this world is better with me than without, I’m enough, I deserve to be loved, and I’m strong, I’m brave, and I’m beautiful the way I am…so are you.
wag wan-ASIA
(The things on brackets are meant to be there as bullet points and remembered)
(Audios of people saying they went through wrote and that the main character should feel lucky)
(doing basic things get to be hard)
(life is beatiful)
(I’m my own cage, only I can stop myself from being happy)
Some times I just want to escape from the world and just be in my happy place
(Shots I need for this part, the character wearing his jacket and going out, some more shots of the character walking towards college)
( to add later on “I always was me”)
It tells that a few day have passed and the character gets more tired
me(Hate, and depression): Its so tiring I hate this place I hate doing this I hate…everything!
(Me: I Wish I could go somewhere else!, Why did I even come here?! This place is so sad! And miserable, I hate going to college I just fucking hate everything. Everything is sad and annoying I can’t change anything and I can’t control anything, I just don’t wanna wake up, I just don’t want to see another morning,) (test)
ME:
POSTER
When i was doing the poster I had my ideas clear for how I wanted to make my poster for the film, I used a lot of books and open them and put the on the table in a very disordered way with lots of pens everywhere< The meaning behind this is that how chaotic life is for our main character in this story , how your brain feels like this many times like you have lots of things to do and it makes you tired and overwhelmed, too many books and pens and you don’t even know how to deal with all of it or where to start from.
I thought of adding a black and white filter to make it more serious and relate more to the story of the short film
Audio/songs/background
Research / Target Audience
my target audience is mainly young people teenagers, but I’d like my movie to be watched by people of all age, because mental helath affects to everyone and it is a huge priority, and I feel like all people would be able to relate to the movie.
My movie I think is very relevant because it describes the situation of a lot of people, and is something that alot of teenagers would feel related, each year the percentsge of teenagers with mental helath problems are getting bigger and bigger, so a short film about it, can help alot of people, and inspire them aswell, my film is made with the porpoise of supporting teenagers and helping them with their mental helath, and creating a lot of awareness about mental health to not just for teenagers but also for parents and friends, so they can help each other, and be more aware of their friend/son/relative mental helath mental helath problems and take them more serisoly.
50% of mental health problems are established by age 14 and 75% by age 24. 10% of children and young people (aged 5 to 16 years) have a clinically diagnosable mental problem3, yet 0% of children and adolescents who experience mental health problems have not had appropriate interventions at a sufficiently early age.
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn06988/
The 2014 survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing in England found that 1 in 6 people aged 16+ had experienced symptoms of a common mental health problem, such as depression or anxiety, in the past week. Women were more likely than men to be experiencing common mental disorders. Prevalence has increased since 1993.
2% of survey respondents had ever experienced bipolar disorder, while 0.7% had experienced psychotic disorder in the past year. 4.4% of respondents screened positive for post-traumatic stress disorder. Just over 5% of survey respondents reported having had suicidal thoughts in the past year.
The most recent survey was in 2014. A new survey is due in 2023.
Source: NHS Digital, Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey 2014
Children’s mental health
A 2022 survey of children and young people’s mental health found that 18.0% of children aged 7-16 had a probable mental disorder in 2022, up from 12.1% in 2017. Among those aged 17-19, 10.1% had a probable mental disorder in 2017, rising to 25.7% in 2022.
Depression during the coronavirus pandemic
Monitoring from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) found that the prevalence of moderate or severe depressive symptoms among adults in Great Britain rose after the start of the pandemic.
In surveys taken between July 2019 and March 2020 prevalence was 10%, but this rose to 19% by June 2020 and 21% by January to March 2021. By September to October 2022 the proportion had fallen to 16%.
Depression and the cost of living
The ONS has monitored relationships between the prevalence of depression and the rising cost of living.
Its data shows that rates of depression were higher among those who found it hard to afford housing costs or energy bills, and higher among renters than homeowners.
The ONS notes that these relationships may not reflect causation.
eople with a physical disability or physical health problem are more likely to experience a mental health problem. In contrast, people with mental health problems are more likely to experience physical health problems.
- More than 15 million people – 30% of the UK population – live with one or more long-term conditions, and more than 4 million of these people will also have mental health problems.1
- People with long-term physical conditions are likelier to have lower well-being scores than those without.2
- People with cancer, diabetes, asthma and high blood pressure are at greater risk of a range of mental health problems such as depression, anxiety and PTSD.3,4
- Of people with severe symptoms of mental health problems, 37.6% also have long-term physical conditions. This compares with 25.3% of people with no or few symptoms of a mental health problem.5
Young people in the UK have higher mental health need than ever. 1 in 6 young people in England (aged 5 to 16) experienced a mental health problem in 2020, up from 1 in 9 in 2017. Nearly one-third of 16-24 year olds in the UK (31%) reported some evidence of depression or anxiety in 2017 to 2018.
https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/explore-mental-health/statistics/children-young-people-statistics
We take a life-course approach to mental health because good mental health begins in infancy.
- 20% of adolescents may experience a mental health problem in any given year.1
- 50% of mental health problems are established by age 14 and 75% by age 24.2
- 10% of children and young people (aged 5 to 16 years) have a clinically diagnosable mental problem3, yet 0% of children and adolescents who experience mental health problems have not had appropriate interventions at a sufficiently early age.4
https://www.verywellmind.com/depression-statistics-everyone-should-know-4159056
Mental health conditions now cause 1 in 5 years lived with disability. Around 20% of the world’s children and adolescents have a mental health condition, with suicide the second leading cause of death among 15-29-year-olds. Approximately one in five people in post-conflict settings have a mental health condition
Depression affects more people than any other mental disorder and is also one of the world’s leading causes of disability. Although it is a treatable disease, six out of every ten people who have depression in Latin America and the Caribbean do not seek or do not receive the treatment they need.
- In 2021, there were 5,583 suicides registered in England and Wales, equivalent to a rate of 10.7 deaths per 100,000 people; while this was statistically significantly higher than the 2020 rate of 10.0 deaths per 100,000 people, it was consistent with the pre-coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic rates in 2019 and 2018.
- The fall in the suicide rate in 2020 was likely to have been driven by a decrease in male suicides at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, and delays in death registrations because of the pandemic.
- The latest figures include deaths that occurred in 2020 and were subsequently registered in 2021 owing to disruption to coroners’ inquests; this provides evidence that the suicide rate did not increase because of the coronavirus pandemic.
- Around three-quarters of suicides were males (4,129 deaths; 74.0%), consistent with long-term trends, and equivalent to 16.0 deaths per 100,000, the rate for females was 5.5 deaths per 100,000.
- Among females, the age-specific suicide rate was highest in those aged 45 to 49 years (7.8 deaths per 100,000), while among males it was highest in those aged 50 to 54 years (22.7 deaths per 100,000).
- Females aged 24 years or under have seen the largest increase in the suicide rate since our time series began in 1981.
- In 10 out of the 11 previous years, London has had the lowest suicide rate of any region of England (6.6 deaths per 100,000), while the highest rate was in the North East with 14.1 deaths per 100,000 in 2021.
- 5219 suicides were registered in 2021*. This is 307 more than in 2020.
- The overall suicide rate was 10.5 per 100,000**, compared to 10.0 per 100,000** in 2020, and 10.8 per 100,000** in 2019.
- The male suicide rate was 15.8 per 100,000**, compared to a female suicide rate of 5.5 per 100,000**.
- Males aged 50-54 were found to have the highest suicide rate (22.5 per 100,000).
- There is regional variation in the suicide rates. The North East of England once again had the highest suicide rate (14.1. per 100,000**), with the North West of England seeing a significant increase in suicide rate in 2021 (12.9 per 100,000**), compared to 2020 (10.1 per 100,000**).